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Coding Bar Learning to code helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic, and creativity. Dive
in with some fun lessons at our coding bar. Presented by Dataseam and the Potter Gray Elementary School Science and Technology Leadership Program

Creating a Profitable Idea: A Makerspace Ideas are easy to come by, but how do we make ideas a reality? Through creativity
and planning. The Maker Mobile shows how you take an idea from conception to production
and spark creativity in the process. Presented by The Maker Mobile

Hand Poetry Trace your hand on a sheet of paper and choose one of the five senses to focus on.
Then write about specific, concrete details in order to spark ideas for poems. Presented by Hunter Little, graduate student in the WKU Department of English’s Creative Writing Program

Idea Mentors What’s YOUR big idea? Maybe you arrived at the festival with a vision for a future
business, invention, artwork, or new way to see the world. Maybe the morning speaker
sessions have inspired you to connect ideas in a different way. If you want a space
to share your ideas, hear about others’ ideas, and connect with peers outside of your
own school, visit the Idea Mentors — WKU undergraduate and graduate students who will
be there to listen, ask questions, and inspire you with their own great ideas.

Maker Games and Soldering Test your reactions and hand-eye coordination as you challenge a friend in our in-house
Maker Games. Continue your maker experience as you participate in a drop-in soldering
lab. Presented by presented by the Kentucky Science Center

Selfie-Station Could your future be at WKU? Get some information and then smile for the camera! Presented by the WKU Admissions Department

Smartphone Microscopes A few simple parts can turn any smartphone into a powerful microscope. Stop by our
booth and make your own smartphone microscope. Presented by Rico Tylor of WKU’s SKyTeach

Speaker Chats Have questions for our speakers? Stop by and chat!

SPINtron SPINtron simulates the motions an astronaut would experience in a capsule in a tumble
on re-entry. Try out this multi-axis trainer by sitting in a chair mounted on a series
of rotating octagonal rings. Presented by Newton’s Attic

Touching the Future: Graphiti The Graphiti is a multilevel tactile graphics display that allows blind students
to access graphical information. Participants will be able to “touch” images, draw
and save images, and connect to other devices to view images. Presented by American Printing House for the Blind

Typewriters, Women’s History, and Images: The Visual Art of Leslie Nichols Typewriters, letterpress, and stamps are tools used by Kentucky-based artist Leslie
Nichols to create portraits. Meet the artist, see her work and the unique tools she
uses to create it, and make an image with text. Presented by Leslie Nichols

Virtual Reality Simulators: “It Can Wait” Experience the dangers of texting while driving in an immersive virtual reality simulation.
Presented by AT&T

WKU Makerspace Visit a supportive learning environment where diverse people and disciplines come
together to create, invent, build, and explore. We will have one-inch buttons, vinyl
stickers, graphics pads/laptops, LEGO robotics/bricks, Sphero robotics and LittleBits.
Presented by Anne Heintzman of the WKU Makerspace